{"id":602314,"date":"2021-07-25T18:21:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602314"},"modified":"2021-07-25T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T22:21:32","slug":"team-usa-has-history-making-olympic-start-in-tokyo-despite-early-failures-worst-olympic-ratings-in-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/team-usa-has-history-making-olympic-start-in-tokyo-despite-early-failures-worst-olympic-ratings-in-three-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Has History-Making Olympic Start In Tokyo Despite Early Failures, Worst Olympic Ratings In Three Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fteam-usa-has-history-making-olympic-start-in-tokyo-despite-early-failures-worst-olympic-ratings-in-three-decades%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602314&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1330543146.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The United States is off to its best Olympic start in recent memory, picking up ten medals in the Games\u2019 opening days despite sagging Olympic ratings \u2014 the worst in 33 years.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA swimmers led the way, with \u201cmedals in every event of the first finals session, including the first U.S. gold medal of the games in any sport,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tokyo-olympics-us-swimming-medals-11627196391\">Wall Street Journal reported Sunday<\/a>. By the end of competition on Sunday, Team USA had 10 medals, including 4 golds. Only China had more, with 11 medals, 6 of which were gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam USA\u2019s six medals\u2014one gold, two silver, and three bronze\u2014are the most it\u2019s ever won on the first day of Olympic swimming finals,\u201d the WSJ noted. \u201cIt\u2019s even more impressive considering that prior to 1984, countries could send three swimmers per event instead of two, allowing possible podium sweeps.\u201d<\/p>\n<div readability=\"82.218415417559\">\n<p>\u201cThe team made the podium in events in which it wasn\u2019t supposed to medal,\u201d U.S. men\u2019s team assistant coach Jack Bauerle told the outlet.&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s obviously a really proud moment,\u201d he gushed. \u201cI can\u2019t really feel anything, I\u2019m so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another surprise, fencer Lee Kiefer won the United States\u2019 first-ever gold medal in individual foil, defeating&nbsp;\u201cdefending champion Inna Deriglazova of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), 15-13,\u201d per Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was a four-time NCAA champion at Notre Dame and then represented the U.S. in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. In the 2012 London Games, she finished fifth. In the 2016 Rio Games, she finished in 10th,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p>Her incredible win was a moment in Olympic history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.3888888888889\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lee Kiefer wins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gold?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gold<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s foil individual <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gold?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gold<\/a> at her third <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIE_fencing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIE_fencing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Niy2Nf7wyI\">pic.twitter.com\/Niy2Nf7wyI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olympics (@Olympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympics\/status\/1419273141147340800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The weekend\u2019s victories come on the heels of one of the worst first days Team USA has had in Olympic history. Americans failed to make the podium in any event on Saturday, and Team USA did not win \u201ca single&nbsp;medal on the first day of competition for the first time since 1972.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaturday marked a disappointing day for the American\u2019s competing in archery, cycling, fencing, judo, air rifle and pistol shooting, taekwondo, and weightlifting,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/team-usa-summer-olympics-no-medals-1972\">Fox News reported<\/a>. Even the women\u2019s gymnastics team, which is expected to soar to victory in both the team and all-around competitions, \u201csputtered,\u201d with star Simone Biles turning out an average, but not spectacular performance in qualifying rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The bobbles, though, were not enough to keep either Biles or Team USA off the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>The only continuing failure belongs to NBC which, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/is-anyone-watching-olympics-tv-viewers-drop-to-33-year-low\">The Daily Wire reported Sunday<\/a>, posted some of its worst Olympics ratings in decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust 16.7 million Americans tuned in to NBC\u2019s broadcast of the ceremony, the smallest U.S. television audience to watch the event in the past 33 years, according to preliminary data from Comcast-owned NBCUniversal,\u201d The Daily Wire\u2019s Joseph Curl noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tokyo opener TV audience declined 37% from 2016 when 26.5 million people watched the Rio de Janeiro Games opener, and 59% from 2012, when 40.7 million people watched the London ceremony,\u201d Reuters reported.&nbsp;\u201cIt was the lowest audience for the opening ceremony since the 1988 Seoul Games, which attracted 22.7 million TV viewers. It was also lower than the 1992 Barcelona Games, when 21.6 million people tuned in, according to Nielsen data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is off to its best Olympic start in recent memory, picking up ten medals in the Games\u2019 opening days despite sagging Olympic ratings \u2014 the worst in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}